PC run amok.
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I expect you would hear similar stories about coaches past and present in many differing levels of athletics. I remember in my high school years hearing about things some high school coaches employed in practice and was glad I was never a part of it.
Interesting story of Coach Bear Bryant and the Ten days in hell with the Bear
Over a period of two years, I interviewed all of the Junction survivors and many of the quitters for a book published by St. Martin's Press in 1999 titled "The Junction Boys." Gene Stallings, who would later coach the Cowboys secondary for fourteen years, and lead Alabama to a national title in 1992, uttered the most unforgettable line about the hell camp; "We went out there in two buses and came back in one."Players ran off in the middle of the night. Some hitchhiked back to College Station. The ones who were brave enough to inform Bryant they were quitting received a free ride to the bus station and a ticket home. For the most part, they scurried across the dusty and rocky grounds through the moonlit darkness as the others yelled from their beds, "Tell the girls back in College Station we said howdy! Tell 'em we'll be home soon."
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Actually Woody Hayes didn’t stand a chance at coaching after he personally assaulted a DB from Clemson back in ‘78 or so.